<p>Summary:</p> <p>Under the general supervision of the laboratory director Dr. Carskadon and the daily direct supervision of the project coordinator the role of the Sleep Research Assistant (SRA) is to perform a variety of duties including form preparations various recruitment duties interactions with participants and their families and other duties necessary to perform research projects.</p> <p>Responsibilities:</p> <p>It is essential that the SRA be comfortable working with and interacting with research participants and their families. Participants can include children adolescents and adults. Information that the SRA comes across and/or collects must at all times remain confidential and respected. Confidentiality accuracy and meticulous attention to detail are essential for this position</p> <p>This full-time SRA position in our sleep research lab includes a variety of duties undertaken in performing our research projects. These duties include: attending study planning meetings activities involved in participant recruitment (writing and placing advertisements brochures flyers; conducting telephone interviews; performing screening of research volunteers and their families); preparing materials for in- lab studies (organizing protocols forms supplies orientation materials and so forth in advance of study); performing structured interviews with research participants and their families; performing procedures involved with collection of continuous activity recordings (initializing downloading and scoring actigraph data according to standard protocols); participating in data entry and error checking. Contributing to preparing and keeping current materials for the Institutional Review Board for the Protection of Human Subjects is another key responsibility.</p> <p>This position requires someone with exceptional ?people skills? in addition to enthusiasm organization creativity and determination. A flexible schedule necessary during certain studies that may require activities in evenings or on weekends. Personal transportation is a must since the SRA must sometimes pick up equipment or participants from their homes.</p> <p>The SRA although usually assigned to a specific project also assists other teams when projects require additional attention. At times orientation sessions or laboratory tours with participants and families may require extended or weekend hours.</p> <p>Other information:</p> <p>BASIC KNOWLEDGE</p> <p>Bachelor?s level degree in any of the life sciences.</p> <p>EXPERIENCE</p> <p>Experience working with human volunteers and human participant recruitment. Familiarity with data/data file management computer data management programs and Macintosh computers is a plus. Additional training is provided.</p> <p>INDEPENDENT ACTION</p> <p>Performs independently within department policies and practices. Refers specific complex problems to supervisor where clarification of departmental policies and procedures may be required.</p> <p>Brown University Health is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin age ethnicity sexual orientation ancestry genetics gender identity or expression disability protected veteran or marital status. Brown University Health is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.</p> <p>Location: Bradley Hospital USA:RI:East Providence</p> <p>Work Type: Full Time</p> <p>Shift: Shift 1</p> <p>Union: Non-Union</p>